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Searching and exploration missions to discover Pluto- A mysterious dwarf planet | Mystery of Galaxy

Searching and exploration missions to discover Pluto Welcome to my blog" Mystery of Galaxy" . Over four billion kilometers away from us, lies a distant, frigid world. On its barren surface, nitrogen falls as snow. Vast plains of frozen methane lie in the shadow of ice water mountains. From the surface of this hostile place, the sun appears nothing more than a star, a single pinprick of light among millions. The name mankind gave this silent world Pluto . Discovered in the midst of the Great Depression by a former Illinois farm boy, Pluto was once the most mysterious planet in our solar system. For decades known only from blurry photographs, it finally became the focus of a NASA mission in 2006… only for the International Astronomer’s Union to controversially strip it of its planet status that same year. A dwarf planet that behaves like a comet, a lifeless chunk of rock that might be home to oceans, Pluto still grips our imaginations. Pluto Today we explore the history of th...